Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

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The South Carolina weather service fur
nishes the following data concerning the
effect of the weather conditions on the
various crops during the week ending last
Saturday:
The rainfall for the week has been below
the average, and has been favorable for
cotton, which needed dry weather.
The temperature has been considerably
below the average, and has had an inju-
rious effe"t on cotton, preventing the open
ing and maturing of the bolls.
There has been the average amount Of
sunshine which has been favorable, but
owing to the prevailing cool winds cotton
has not been materially benefited.
Cotton has been retarded by the low
temperature, and especially the cool nights,
consequently NJ improvement in its con-
dition can be reported. Corn and all other
crops are reported in fine condition and
fully up to the average.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
The following is the weather crop bulle-
tin of the signal office at Washington for
the week ending September 3:
During the week ending September 3,
the weather has been colder than usual
in the lake region, Ohio Valley, Southern
and Atlantic States, and unusually cold
from Maryland southwestward to Georgia
and Alabama. In the tobacco regions of
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina,
the daily average temperature ranged
from 6 to 8 degrees below the normal. In
the corn region West of the Mississippi
river the temperature has been normal
or slightly above.
The daily average temperature for the
season, from January l to September 3,
very generally differs less than one degree
from the normal in all districts, excepting
that for Missouri, and from central Dakota
southwark over the western portions of
Nebraska and Kansas it varies from one
to two degrees above the normal, and
along the South Carolina and Georgia
coasts from one to two degrees below, and
along Lake Superior from two three de-
grees below.
During the week the rainfall has been
slightly in excess from eastern Texas
northWard to the Missouri valley. In
Florida and the upper portion Of the Mis-
sippi valley, and in other sections there
has been a slight deficiency, amounting
to about one inch in the South Atlantic
and Middle Atlantic States. The def
cheney for the season continues large in
the lower Mississippi valley and portions
of Illinois and Iowa, exceeding ten inches.
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rain fell in the past month from eastern
Texas %northward to the Missouri valley,
in the northern portion of Illinois, south
ern portion of Wisconsin and from western
Virginia to northeastern Georgia. Less
than 80 per cent. of the usual rainfall has
been reported from the lower Mississippi
valley, central Alabama, southern Illinois
and the greater portion of Ohio.
Frosts occurred in central Michigan, Au-
gust so and 81.
The LAND LOAN COMPANIEs.-The
Land and Loan Associations that COM
menced business in Georgia five years ago,
loaning money on farms for that term Of
years, are rapidly foreclosing their mort
cages and getting judgments against the
unfortunate farmers in the United States
Courts. Farmers will do well to be warn
ed in time and resort to every known spe-
cies of economy to get out of debt rather
than borrow money that is often not wise
ly expended and in the end brings fnan-
cial ruin to the home it was intended to
benefit. We might strengthen our argu-
ment by stating that the Farmers Tribune,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a successful
farming region, containstW and a half SOL
id pages, in the finest type, of foreclosure
notices, of the Northwestern Guaranty
Loan COmpany.-SOutheTn CttirutOr,